Way back in Tag 36, almost three years ago, I picked up my first tag in this game, the anchor in Allegheny Center. But it’s time to drop anchor again! When you find it, you might say “That’s It! ____ _____!”, and in so doing, earn some high marks.

Yeah, I rode past that anchor this morning.
That sea of orange cones really struck me. They were having a BMW driving demonstration. I’ll bet I could outdo any of the cars in terms of precise handling.
I couldn’t Google to translate it, but I’m pretty sure that Russian word means “awesome”.

Six months ago, the space on the right looked like the space on the left. But with a lot of volunteer labor and $1,500 of tax money, it’s been cleared out, cleaned up, and seeded with flowers and native plants.

Transliteration would be “Stahanovtsy”. This is based on last name “Stahanov” who was in charge of coal-miner brigade that produced enormous amount of coal per each day (as usual rigged) and it became an word of its own meaning that you have to work really-really hard to earn this nick-name.

Way back, in the mists of time, I added the histogram chart to the Tag-o-Rama spreadsheet, mostly because I was curious about the player distribution. It became apparent that people stratified in terms of their focus on the game. So I added the range labels; they were not meant to be too serious, after all it was a light-hearted, fun game with a top score of ~16, I think.

I visited the spreadsheet more recently and (among other things) realized that the scores had really shot up. Calling the top tier Stakhanovites seemed about right: Heroes we seek to emulate.